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...quit as Labor candidate for Israel's top job, Rabin could not resign office immediately; as head of a caretaker government, he was bound by law to stay on until a new government is formed after the May 17 elections. Sensitive to the situation, Attorney General Aharon Barak suggested a loophole in the law that would allow a caretaker to step down if the Premier were "absent from the country or temporarily unable to fulfill his duty." Rabin at first refused to take advantage of this option, which fueled rumors that he might be planning a political comeback...
...Finance Ministry officials went over the bank records, they discovered a second account, containing nearly $6,000. In all, the Rabins had $18,700 in the two accounts when they left Washington, and they had transferred only some $10,500 back home. Israel's Attorney General Aharon Barak decided that the matter was serious enough to justify calling in the state prosecutor to investigate further. He also decided that Mrs. Rabin bears responsibility for the accounts; if found guilty in court, she could face up to three years in jail or a heavy fine. Confronted with the evidence...
...control of the sound truck "Down Commonwealth Avenue...Don't stop at the intersection..." The police relax their lines. The march swings left, chanting "The people United. Will never be defeated..." The brown jackets fall to the rear. They are the African Unity League and their leader, Imamu Barak is the only one among them who will acknowledge any questions, All Baraks will reply is, "Just write the story...
Much more important for Schwimmer, I.A.I.'s planes and weapons performed well during the October war. The company's own fighter, the Barak (Hebrew for lightning), did especially well: of the 70 planes that saw combat, only three were lost. The plane carries a General Electric jet engine in an Israeli-built French Mirage III C, the plans for which were spirited out of France when Charles de Gaulle cut off deliveries to Israel after the Six-Day War in 1967. It is the first fighter ever manufactured in Israel, and a special feather in Schwimmer...
Against such scenic showmanship, Veteran Soprano Leonie Rysanek held her own, reaffirming the belief of many critics that she is the world's greatest interpreter of the role. New Zealander Donald Mclntyre, who was impressive last year as Barak in Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten at Covent Garden, used his deep baritone voice as an apocalyptic Dutchman. Alabama-born Tenor Jean Cox, as Erik, successfully followed Everding's instructions to behave as if he were "the only normal human being in the action...